iamgio/quarkdown v2.1.0 on GitHub

Added

AI agent skill

Quarkdown now ships with an agent skill, so tools can author .qd documents on your behalf.

To install on Claude Code:

ln -s "$(quarkdown doctor get agent-skill)" ~/.claude/skills/quarkdown

See the agent skill documentation for more details.

Read environment variables

The new .env {name} function reads an environment variable from the host system, returning its value as a string or none if unset.

The home directory is .env {HOME}::otherwise {unknown}

`process` permission

A new process permission gates access to the host process environment. Reading environment variables requires this permission to be explicitly granted:

quarkdown c main.qd --allow process

`doctor` command

The new quarkdown doctor command group reports information about the current Quarkdown installation:

doctor env checks the runtime environment for possible issues.
doctor get * commands are intended for scripting and tooling that need to introspect Quarkdown's environment:
```
INSTALL="$(quarkdown doctor get install-dir)"
ls "$INSTALL/docs"
```

Changed

Bundled Java runtime

The Quarkdown distribution now includes a minimal (~50MB) Java runtime, so the CLI runs out of the box without requiring a separate Java installation on your system.

Each release ships a per-platform executable (linux-x64, macos-x64, macos-aarch64, windows-x64).

Improved function call performance

Function call-heavy documents now compile faster, by extracting metadata once at function load time.

Fixed

PDF size and generation time reduction in `paged` documents

For paged documents, PDF generation now produces output that is:

up to 90% smaller,
generated up to 2x faster.

Thanks @philipredstone!

Fixed inline code inside compact footnote definitions

Compact footnotes like [^: text with `code`] were incorrectly parsed as plain text instead of footnotes. The definition pattern now allows backtick-enclosed spans inside the footnote body.

Thanks @Shreyansh-Kushwaha!